MESSAGE
FROM
THE PRESIDENT OF T HE UNITED STATES,
TRANSMITTING
OF THE
DIRECTOR OF TIIE MINT,
OF THE
OPERATIONS OF THAT ESTABLISHMENT
DURING
THE LAST YEAR.
JANUARY 6, 1814.
Ordered to lie on the table.
WASHINGTON:
A. h > G. WAY, PRINTERS.
1814.
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MESSAGE.
2o the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States .
I communicate tor the information of Congress, the
Beport of the Director of the Mint, of the operation of
that establishment during the last year.
JAMES MADISON.
January 6, 1814.
MINT OF THE UNITED STATES,
January 1 , 1814.
SIR,
I HAVE now the honor of laying- before you a Report
of the operations of the mint for the last twelve months.
From the treasurer’s statement of the coinage, herewith trans-
mitted, it will appear that during that period there have struck and
issued,
In gold coins, 95,428 pieces, amounting to 477,140 dollars : In silver
coins, 1,241,903 pieces, amounting to 620,951 dollars, 50 cents: In
copper coins, 418,000 pieces, amounting to 4,180 dollars: making in
the whole, one million, seven hundred and fifty-five thousand, three
hundred and thirty-one pieces of coin, amounting to one million, one
hundred and two thousand, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and
fifty cents.
I have the honor to be,
"With sentiments of the most perfect esteem,
Your obedient faithful servant,
R. PATTERSON.
James Madison,
President of the United States.
$ Statement of the Coins struck at the Mint of the United States, from the 1st of
January to the 31st of December, 1813, inclusive, viz:
Number of
Pieces.
Half Eagles.
Amount in J)nl.
lurs and Cents.
TOTALS.
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Quarter ending 30tli June, ........
ditto, 30th September, .......
ditto, 31st December
28.398
23.030
44.000
141,990
115,150
220,000
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93,428
Pieces of gold coins, .........
93,428
Total amount of gold coins,
477, IF)
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Quarter ending 31st March. . . .
ditto, 30th J une, .........
ditto, 30th September, .......
ditto, 31st December, ........
338,63(5
337,965
124,510
440,772
169,328
168.982 30
62,235
220,386
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1,241,903
Pieces of silver coins,
1,241.903
Total amount of silver coins.
620,951 30
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Quarter ending 30th June, ........
ditto, 31st December, ........
196.000
222,000
1.960
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418,000
Pieces of copper coins,
418,000
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Total amount of copper coins,
4,180
Number,
1,735,331
Of the coins, Amount of all the coins in 1813,
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MINT OF THE UNITED STATES,
TREASURER'S OFFICE, Philadelphia, December 81 , 1813 .
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